Public Health aims to provide __________ with the right to be healthy and live in conditions that
support health. - Answers groups of people
A (n) ________ or ________ is a disease ocurence among a population that is in excess of of what is
expected for a given time and place - Answers epidemic, outbreak
Each Public Health core science helps us to ______ and ______ the publics health by providing
practitioners with the answers they need. - Answers protect, promote
What is the problem? - Answers Surveillance
What is the cause? - Answers Risk Factor Identification
What works? - Answers Intervention Evaluation
How do you do it? - Answers Implementation
Which of the following is not a core function of public health? - Answers Authority
The essential health services of monitoring health and diagnosing and investigating disease relate to
which core public health function? - Answers Assessment
List the 4 determinants of health - Answers bio and genes
social/societal characteristics
health and behavior
health services or medical care
As we move ____ the health impact pyrimid, the public health impact grows greater - Answers down
As we move _____ the health impact pyrimid, the amount of individual effort increases - Answers up
Public health resources are availible to assist communities and individuals at the ____ and ____ level.
- Answers Federal and State
Each public health priority helps us to _____ and _____ the publics health by providing Public health
resources where they are needed most. - Answers identify goals and improve
Which public health resource is most essential during a natural disaster? - Answers assessment
All of the following illustrate the purpose of evidence based public health except - Answers
concealing what is learned
Public health researchers use evidence based results in decision making to maximize scarce resources
and to provide support for _____ - Answers clinical and health policy decisions
What was the name of the document that outlined the treatment of human subjects? - Answers The
Belmont Report
Individuals should be treated as autonomous agents and second that persons with diminished
autonomy are entitled to protection - Answers Respect for Persons
Persons are treated in an ethical manner not only by respecting their decisions and protecting them
from harm but also by making an effort to secure well beings - Answers Beneficence
Who ought to receive the benefits of research and bear its burdens? - Answers Justice
All of the following illustrate the purpose of epidemiology in public health except - Answers providing
treatment for patient and client settings
Malaria is ____ in Africa - Answers an endemic
A group of cases in this time and place can be described as - Answers a cluster
To begin calculating the rate, investigators should first determine - Answers the number of cases of
illness
Epidemiologist are doing a study on sleep patterns of college students but does not provide any
intervention. - Answers observational
The finding from this outbreak investigation led to development of new regulations world wide for
climate control systems - Answers Implement, control, prevention measures
Informatics use public health knowledge to - Answers broaden the ph base through learning, improve
public health in daily practice, and further knowledge in public health research
Which of the following professionals work with health data standards and sources and ensures
integrity and security of the standards? - Answers the information
Which is not a function of public health informatician? - Answers designs, implement, and
administers data base architecture, privacy, security, and back up procedures
Public health surveillance is the ____, ____, collection, analysis, and interpretation of health related
data - Answers ongoing, systematic